Children's Peace Prize winner fights for orphans in India

November 18, 2014 23:47

Neha Gupta, an 18-year-old Indian-American, today won the presigious International Children's Peace Prize for her work to help orphans in India and other vulnerable children.

Gupta won the award whose last year's winner was Malala Yousufzai, who went on to win this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Gupta from Philadelphia became the first ever American to be awarded the Children's International Peace Prize in The Hague, Netherlands.

She was awarded the prize by Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu at a ceremony in The Hague. The prize is awarded annually to a child, anywhere in the world, for his or her dedication to children's rights.

Gupta began her astounding work when she was just a child herself, visiting her parents' native place India nine years ago.

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